The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
1965
The band's rhythm section came straight out of Howlin' Wolf's group, and Butterfield had learned harmonica in Chicago clubs while still at university.
★ 3.9
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Two Steps from the Blues
1961
Bland took his trademark squall from a recorded sermon by a Detroit preacher, and worked it into nearly every song he sang afterwards.
★ 3.9
Ice Pickin'
1978
Collins tuned his guitar to a minor chord and moved a capo around it, which no one else did, and it accounts for the sound.
★ 2.9